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Left Realism: “Taking Crime Seriously”
2022Left realism emerged in the mid-1980s as a criminological theory of the Left. In 1979 Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government had been voted into power in the United Kingdom on a largely law-and-order ticket. Thatcher led an administration of the radical Right, close in politics to Ronald Reagan’s Republicanism in the United States, bound to ...
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Contemporary Crises, 1987
Can anything be said in conclusion on the essence of the realist approach? It is important to end by restating that realism originates as a reaction, in current social and political conditions to the absences in radical criminology. These are the absence of a discourse about crime and a refusal to talk about the constructive as opposed to the ...
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Can anything be said in conclusion on the essence of the realist approach? It is important to end by restating that realism originates as a reaction, in current social and political conditions to the absences in radical criminology. These are the absence of a discourse about crime and a refusal to talk about the constructive as opposed to the ...
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2017
This chapter examines left and right realism, which address real problems faced by society and suggest solutions. It first considers the political context surrounding the emergence of realist criminologies before discussing three common themes which unite right realism: a focus on ‘street crime’; anti-intellectualism; and a focus on punishing criminals.
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This chapter examines left and right realism, which address real problems faced by society and suggest solutions. It first considers the political context surrounding the emergence of realist criminologies before discussing three common themes which unite right realism: a focus on ‘street crime’; anti-intellectualism; and a focus on punishing criminals.
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2006
Abstract This chapter begins by asking two key questions: what is realism?; and, is there an issue here still worth arguing about? The answer to the first question is minimal or deflationary in spirit: realism is simply the view that most current commonsense and scientific objects exist, and that most claims about such objects are true ...
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Abstract This chapter begins by asking two key questions: what is realism?; and, is there an issue here still worth arguing about? The answer to the first question is minimal or deflationary in spirit: realism is simply the view that most current commonsense and scientific objects exist, and that most claims about such objects are true ...
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2018
Realist criminology and left idealism represent two major strands of critical criminology, sharing a number of features but also representing opposing stances. Viewing crime as a process of social construction means that what is defined as 'crime' changes over time and in different locations.
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Realist criminology and left idealism represent two major strands of critical criminology, sharing a number of features but also representing opposing stances. Viewing crime as a process of social construction means that what is defined as 'crime' changes over time and in different locations.
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Jock Young, Left Realism and Critical Victimology
Critical Criminology, 2015In this paper I reflect upon the legacy of the work of Jock Young for the development of a critical criminology. In doing this I also endeavour to offer a contribution to an internal history of both criminology and victimology but from a very particular, and personal, position. The paper falls into four parts.
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Critical left-realism and sport interventions in divided societies
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2010What, if any, is the value of sport to processes of peace and reconciliation? After introducing the largely rhetorical arguments for and against the value of using sport as a vehicle to promote peace building in divided societies, this article makes a more detailed and forensic examination of the evidence based on: the role played by sport in South ...
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Reifying Crime, Legitimising Racism: Policing, Local Authorities and Left Realism
1990The influence of the politics of ‘race’ on local authorities has, in London at least, gone hand in hand with the politics of policing. This was particularly evident in the early 1980s, closely following the disturbances of 1981, when a number of Labour local authorities initiated policies both on race equality and police accountability.
Michael Keith, Karim Murji
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Left Realism in Criminology and the Return to Consensus Theory
1991The recasting of the knowledge base of social democracy has involved the use of the term ‘realism’ in a number of policy areas. In criminology, a social democratic, or ‘left’ realism has been developed by a group of intellectuals, in sympathy with the parties of the social democratic left, who seek to challenge the hegemony in left discourses of ...
Kevin Stenson, Nigel Brearley
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